I used to love it, I have a 20k user account (not bad considering they're over 500k now), now I come over to Fark for my daily Quickies (remember how cool those were?) and news.google.com and Theregister.co.uk for nerd news.

I am a geek, a big geek, and I read /. but I couldnt imagine paying for that. I would pay for TotalFark though because it's all news and I like news. I also like telling my Dad how wrong he is when he quotes news stories because I actually read all the news before he does and it makes him mad. Oh the joys of Fark.

It's interesting that TotalFark is not used (as far as I can tell) for spotting typos/dead links/general errors. I've replied to a few articles before they hit the main page, but nothing ever seems to get fixed (not that it's realistic to expect this of the admins, given the volume of articles/comments posted).I doubt it would really be different on 'TotalSlashdot', but who knows.

That's funny. Slashdot is the rock bottom of "web journalism." I quit posting there and even reading for the most part a while ago... too many pointless flamewars, too much wasted time. At least one can have a normal discussion here, and I actually feel that my TotalFark $$ goes to something worthy, not to some idiots who couldn't give 2 shiats about their site.

Blink: The big difference, of course, is that the Slashdot editors are -- get this -- paid a very nice salary!!! And they treat their site as if they don't care. The Slashdot people don't own the site like Drew owns Fark; it's owned by a corporation.

I used to be an avid slashdot reader. I switched to fark.com a few months ago. It is not even funny how the average discussion on fark.com is more intelligent and sensible comparing to slashdot. Also, the topics on Slashdot are pretty boring as of last few years ( bash microsoft. whine about ria suing music pirates. bash microsoft some more. )

Surely we have a few Farker lawyers (e.g. Litig8r, I'm sure there are others). Let's just file some lawsuits on these guys just for fun! Think about it, TSG would post the court documents, we could link to the news stories, it'd be one big self-promoting event.

"So I posted a dupe again. It happens. Of course this time was pretty amazing because I went a full 2 hours, and didn't know until someone in the office told me. I'm pretty busy on tuesdays (we have staff mtgs on tuesdays) so I usually don't have much time to read comments. Course in 2 full hours, not a single user emailed me."

I'm with Albinoman on this one. Both sites have their place. They provide some scatterings of hard science and science fiction info that I'm too lazy to track down on my own. Now, that said, I'd never pay for the content that /. provides. I get a lot more value from my Total Fark Account than I would over there. To me the Troll content seems to be about equal on both boards; only the focus differs.